Newcastle Make Surprise Move For Goalkeeper

There are reports today that Newcastle are making a move to bring Crystal Palace goalkeeper Julian Speroni on an emergency loan deal for the game at Bournemouth on Saturday.

The experienced 36 year-old Argentine is currently being kept out of the first team by Welsh International Wayne Hennessey and maybe Newcastle are hoping their former manager Alan Pardew can do them a favor.

Maybe.

Julian Speroni – reports Newcastle after him
At the moment Newcastle have all three senior goalkeepers – Tim Krul, Karl Darlow and Rob Elliot – out injured and we assume the club have applied for permission to bring in a goalkeeper on an emergency loan for the game at Bournemouth.

Newcastle also have 18 year-old England U19 goalkeeper Freddie Woodman available and he played last night for the U21s in the 2-0 win at home to Aston Villa.

Speroni has been at Palace for 11 years since joining them from Dundee back in 2004 and he’s been out injured this season with a finger injury.

He has played over 500 games in his career and has 386 appearances in all competitions for Crystal Palace over the last eleven years.

If Newcastle can get Julian in he would be an excellent emergency loan signing for us.

Alan Pardew also has English goalkeeper Alex McCarthy available to him – but it’s not clear how long Newcastle would need Speroni for and there are reports that Pardew isn’t too willing to lose for Speroni for any length of time.

What we’ve had before in Remy and Ba were out and out goal scorers. We curently don’t have one, or not a proven one anyway. Potentially Cisse but his form and injury record the last 2 years isn’t good enough.

That’s the biggest difference, without a top goalscorer it’s dofficult to win games when not performing well, which really is a problem given how incocistent we are.

You always say we played terrible when we came 5th (I personally don’t think it was as bad as you made out but that’s a different issue). The difference was even when we did play bad then you could count on Ba to slot a fair few half chances away and win us points.

It’d b terrible. We’re trying to get in sum1 who hasn’t played for a considerable amount of time. Plus he’s been out through injury. N tbh, Speroni is a hit n miss. Mite have a gud game mebbe 1 in10.
N most importantly, I wudnt want Pardew to get the satisfaction!!!

The season we finished 5th, we played an attacking 4-3-3 formation which suited the players we had, for some unknown reason the following season the inept one changed the formation to 4-2-3-1, and we have struggled ever since.

McClaren has us playing 4-4-1-1 now with mixed results, we are still conceding too many goals, but we are creating more chances to score ourselves, just lacking that cutting edge, that little bit of luck that we all hope will come sooner rather than later.

McClaren was not my choice to take us forward, but he is what we got, and things look better on the pitch even though we still need those results to go our way.

I don’t think we will get relegated this season, and believe we will kick on to a better season next year, though still mid table.

I am quietly confident that results will turn our way pretty soon.

On Riviere, he plays his best football on the left side of a front three, so maybe there is still hope for him to come good for us.

@TroubledToon. Oh yeah, as for Pardew who gives a sh*t. The tw*t is clerly getting enough satisfaction from Palace’s position compared to ours, not taking a keeper off them would just be cutting our nose off to spite our face.

@firebug666. Apart from Valdes who we don’t know what the story is with regard to him falling out with Van Gaal, who is currently a better third choice keeper than Speroni? Keep in mind it is the third choice keepers that we have to pick from.

@Ibizatoon. Yep, he was their first choice until he got injured and stats wise is usually at the top end of keepers despite playing for a Palace side who weren’t riding as high as they are now.

@firebug666. 36 isn’t that old for a keeper, he has a few seasons left in him yet. Speroni is still seen as arguably Palace’s best keeper when and has been voted player of the year 4 times, three of those times in a row. Valdes looked like a typical Spanish league keeper to me, can be brilliant but erratic, the exception is De Gea. He also doesn’t have even a tenth of Speroni’s experience in English football.

what about to try this formation:
janmaat,mbemba,colo,dummet
….wijnaldum…….tiote…………..
sissoko…..s.de jong……perez
…………..mitrovic…………………
…………………………………………..
maybee the most offensive squad for us and SMC should try De Jong, maybee he will bring that killer instinct………….

@Ibizatoon. Palace weirdly probably have the best selection of keepers in the league. Hennessy is a great keeper and McCarthy is an England international of course. There are people who believe given time Speroni would become first choice again.

That all we had though , a goal scorer , we bypassed the MF straight up to Ba ,
And the guy who said we played 433 and it worked , didn’t watch us very well, ba was wasted out on the left, hardly touched the ball or contributed , we played well in that system for about 6 games, in which the ball was played with Cisse, HBA , Cabaye.

Remy is/ was a good goal scorer, but we never played a team game with him, he did a lot himself.

Right now we are a team, we play the ball all over the pitch , we just need more luck in front of goal, last week colo had a good chance , this week Jamal had a good chance , Gini is weighing in with goals, Mitro is scoring , and it won’t be long before both sissoko and Perez are in really in the goals , Perez has one, I know

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